Folding box.



A. HESS.

FOLDING BOX.

APPLICATION rum) 11:11.3, 1913.

Patented Apr. 1 2 sums-sum 1.

A. HESS.

FOLDING BOX.

APPLIOATIOH 11.21) FEB. a, 1913.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

2 sums-51mm 2.

consists in providing the folding UNITED STATES ran ALBERT HESS, 0F FRIECDBERG, HESSE, GERMANY.

romaine BOX.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. M, 19%.

Application filed February 3, 1913. Serial No. 746,048.

jectof the German Emperor, residingat Friedberg, in Hesse, Germany,. have invent-ed certain new and usual Improvements in Folding Boxes, of which the following is a Specification.

The present invention relates to folding boxes and has for its object toprovide a box so devised as to form a chambered or partitioned folding box, and particularly twochambered or portmanteau folding-box, having several frames and thus capable of being divided off by several partitions.

The aim of the device is to enable various articles or materials to be packed in the box, sorted as desired as for instance accordin to kind, uality or the like, and without iability of becoming mixed in transport. A particularly ready way of effecting such separation according to kinds is to interpose a partition wall between the adjacent frames.

One way of carrying out the invention box with several frames'which can be laid flat and which are connected each to the adjacent frame at one edge, and form together a frame having several sections. The outer edges of the outermost frames are prolonged to form side panels which carry the closing parts, such as lid panels or the like. In order to permit of easily handling the folding-box when in the closed position, one of its parts may have a handle.

The accompanying drawings show various illustrative examples of folding boxes embodying the present invention. i

In the said drawings:Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a two-chambered box in different positions of folding. Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 2 showing another embodiment of the invention; Fig. 4 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1 for a third embodiment; Figs. 5 and 6 represent the folding box represented by Fig. 4 almost closed and completely closed respectively; Fig. 7 is a'diagrammatical representation of a three-chambered folding box.

It is to be understood that the term contour walls will be used in this specification to indicate the ends, top and bottom Walls of the box when in its normal position for transportation.

The folding box comprises a frame a which can be collapsed flat and a frame a which can be likewise collapsed flat to the frame a at an interior edge 6. Each of these respectively, attached to or near an outer edge, for instance to the outer bottom edge e, e respectively These side panels carry the closing flaps f, f, and are provided with insertion strips g, g Atthe top inner edge of one frame a is arranged a handle is, which will, after drawing it through the slots 8, s in the closing panels, facilitate the handling of the closed box. Beforeerecting the two frames a, a, one or both 'of the frames when loaded is or are covered with a piece of pa er, cloth or the like ielding material, so t at the contents of t e two compartments will remain separate. Such a separation by means of a comparatively yielding interposedlayer however, can only be done with soft, yielding goods; if oomparat-ively rigid articles have to be trans ported, the form'of construction shown in Figs. 3 to 6 is referable. In this example there is attache directly to the joining edge of the two frames (1 and a a more secure separating means in the form of a wall 11 of cardboard .or the like. In a boxhaving this form of separating wall, it is of advantage to arrange the handle is on the latter, and to draw same through the slots .9, s of the closing flaps f, f.

In place of insertion pieces 9, 9' such as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 on the interior of the side panels 03, 03, the folding frames 0;, a are in the example shown in Fig. 4 provided with overlays or covering strips m, m. It is of course not absolutely necessary that in this case the partition 2' should be situated between the two frames. A closure suitable for the folding box as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 can be seen from Figs. '5 and 6.

Instead of the folding box comprising only two folding frames hinged together at one edge, it may, as can be seen from Fig. 7 comprise several, for instance three, frames, a, a, a which are hinged together at their edges Z), 6 and are separated from each other by partition walls 71, i On the outer frame a and a are formed or attached the side panels at, d carrying the closing flaps f, 7. When three frames are incorporated the middle one advantageously carries the handle 10 which is drawn through slots in the closing flaps f, f, so as to keep the folding box together and at the same time facilitate the carrying of same. It will be seen that the provision of several frames and parill) titions enables the contents of the box to be said partition, and flaps carried by the outer ke t separate accordin to kind, without sections and provided with slots adapted to lia ility of. their becomlng mixed when the engage over the extension when the box is box is carried about. closed. 5 What I claim as my invention and desire In testimony whereof I-aifix my signature 15 to secure by Letters Patent is: in presence of two witnesses.

A folding box comprising a plurality of ALBERT HESS. sections hinged together along'one edge, a Witnesses: partition located between two of said sec- JEAN GRUND,

lotions, a slotted extension projecting from CARL GRUND. 

